The Key West Citizen App Feed2020-01-23T15:01:27-05:0011793607Conchs blank Dolphins, teams prep for playoffs2020-01-23T06:01:28-05:00The always scrappy Marathon High School girls soccer team hosted the Key West High School girls squad and the outcome was as expected.

Despite an 8-0 loss to the Lady Conchs, the much younger Lady Dolphins gave 100 percent until the final whistle late in the second half.

If there was one thing Marathon coach Kelley Struyf would change would be a goal by her squad.

“I think they all played rather well considering the competition,” said Struyf, who had a lot of praise for a few players. “Rain Banks, Sara Paskiewicz, Allison Paskiewicz, Lillian Guo and Rylan Chapa were our standout players. Allison had to come back and play outside defender and played it well.”

With a strong defensive presence, Marathon held the Conchs out of the goal until the seventh minute. Junior offensive threat Emily Gould took a pass from Jenna Domenech and knocked it in for a 1-0 advantage.

In a 70-second span, Key West reeled off a pair of goals. At the 10:15 mark, junior midfielder Marie Willy scored unassisted and in the 11th minute, senior defensive specialist Megan Williams scored her first of two, this one off a pass from Gould.

The Marathon defense slowed the Conchs attack, but in the 29th minute, Abby Collins found a gap in the Marathon back to put the ball in for a 4-0 game at the half.

A minute into the second half, Mercy Petro netted back-to-back goals — the second on an assist from Vikki Daley-Willy.

At the 54:15 mark, Williams scored her second goal and Daley-Willy iced the scoring with a goal at the 55:45 mark to end the game.

Marathon had chances to score, but the Key West defense was impenetrable.

“We had a few opportunities in front of their goal, but we couldn’t capitalize,” said Struyf. “Rain was the only one to get a shot off.”

Conchs coach Justin Martin said it was a good run for his team with everyone on the bench getting some minutes.

“I only played my starters the first quarter. My younger players played the rest of the game. I hope it was good run for Kelley to get her team to play a little more playing time.

Hopefully, it was good for both sides,” said Martin, looking ahead to the district playoffs next week. “It was something to build off. We play Westland (Hialeah) on Friday. We’ll know on Wednesday if we have a home game here on Tuesday which I think would be against Miami Sunset. Then we’ll have Gulliver Prep on Thursday at Gulliver. We’ll have to win districts in order to advance to the state tournament.”

rcooke@keysnews.com

]]>2020-01-23T00:00:00-05:001By RON COOKE
Key West CitizenThe always scrappy Marathon High School girls soccer team hosted the Key West High School girls squad and the outcome was as expected.Despite an 8-0 loss to the Lady Conchs, the much younger Lady Dolphins gave 100 percent until the final whistle late